Opossum breaks into liquor store, gets drunk on bourbon

A possum drank a bottle of bourbon after breaking into a liquor store in Fort Walton Beach, Florida on Dec. 1, 2017. (Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge)

Turns out she wasn't playing possum, she was only drunk.

A Florida bar owner opening up shop following the Thanksgiving holiday was met by a drunken opossum polishing off a bottle of bourbon. The sneaky critter made its way into Cash's Liquor Store and had a festive celebration all her own, the Northwest Florida Daily News reported.

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Cash Moore, who also owns AJ's on the Bayou bar and restaurant, said as far as he knows, the opossum is of legal drinking age.

"A worker there found the opossum up on the shelf next to a cracked open bottle of liquor with nothing in it. Assuming the opossum drank it all, he brought her to us, and we looked her over," Michelle Pettis, a wildlife technician in the Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge.

She said the female opossum was salivating and appeared to be pale and disoriented when she was dropped off at the refuge.

"We loaded her up with fluids to help flush out any alcohol toxins," Pettis told the newspaper. "She was good a couple of days later and released Thursday night."

The boozed-up marsupial also managed to avoid a hangover, Pettis added.

Moore suspects the opossum came through the rafters and knocked the bottle of liquor off one of the shelves.

"When she got down to the floor she drank the whole damn bottle!" he said. "But it just goes to show that even animals are impressed with Cash's."